Water-cooler.



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Patented Oct. 6, 1908.

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ERNST none, or MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR T0 NATIONAL ENAMELING ANDSTAMPING COMPANY, A CORPORATION or NEW JERSEY.

WATER-COOLER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 6, 1908.

Application filed June 17, 1905. serial No. 265,669.

which the ice is kept separated from the water that is to be co'oled,'inorder H "by to permit the use of pond-water 1C8 orother ice that may bedeemed unsuited for melting.

with drinking water.

The invention consists of the Construction herein described and claimed.

Referring to the drawing, Figure 1 is a vertical section of the watercooler embodying the improvement. Fig. 2 is a top end wview of the icereceptacle.

The walls, (not the water cooler may be madedouble with a suitable.packing or filling, 6, in the usual or any well known manner. The waterchamber, 0, has a sheet metal bottom, d, provided on its upper surfacewith a circular bearing, 0, depressed below the said surface.

The ice rccc 'itacle, F, has a cylindric form and the bottom or lowerend, 9, fits snugly into the said circular depression, 6, on the bottomof the water chamber and is thereby retained or held stationary fromlateral movement; the upper end of the ice receptacle, If, is providedwith a collar or v band, 12 which surrounds its walls and s1 rcngthcnsits top edge and prevents same 'l'rom being battered when putting lumpsof icc in the receptacle. This collar is made .ot two semi-circularbars, l1, each having lateral ends or arms, 1', the bars are broughttogether with the lateral endsof one in contact with the lateral ends ofthe other and these ends are then secured together by rivets, The collaris secured to the receptaclc by rivets, la. The double lateral ends, z',of the collar have a quarter twist and project radially from the icereceptacle.

The water clnnnbcr, 0, near the top has its wall provided with twolateral lugs, Z, these project inward and are positioned diametricallyopposite each other. When the ice receptacle, F, is placed in. positionits entire lower end will be seated in the circular depression, 6, thelateral ends, .2, of the collar will be coincident with the undersurface of the lateral lugs, Z, on the water chamber, and the entire icereceptacle may be turned without its lower end shifting from thecircular depression consequently a slight twist or turn of thereceptacle, F, will bind the lateral arms, '2', under the lugs, l, andthis means will hold the receptacle down and keep its lower end seatedin said de pression, c.

The receptacle will contain the ice, and the space or chamber around theoutside of the receptacle will contain the drinking Water. Thereceptacle may be readily disconnected, removed and cleaned, and thenreplaced.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is,

A water cooler comprising an outer shell an ice receptacle and anintermediate water receptacle with a filling between said shell andwater receptacle a draw-oi? faucet extending through the outer shell andfilling, and communicating with the water receptacle, the inner wall ofsaid intermediate water receptacle being provided withinardly-projecting rigid lugs while the ice receptacle is provided atits upper end with semi-circular bars which are rigidly secured to itsupper edge and which extend around the same and the ends of one barbeing secured to the ends of the other bar and the secured 7 endsprojecting laterally from -diametrically opposite sides of the icereceptacle and extending beneath the rigid lugs on the intermediatereceptacle whereby to hold the ice receptacle down in the intermediatereceptacle.

Tn testimony whereof I aliix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ERNST MOHR. "Witnesses EMIL ll. \Vm'rnn, G. H. PonL.

